Adapted from Jon Ronson's best selling book, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" is the new film from the production team behind "Goodnight and Lovely Luck" and stars Hollywood heavyweights Ewan McGregor ("Trainspotting", "Star Wars"), George Clooney ("Michael Clayton", "Burn After Reading"), Kevin Spacey ("American Beauty", "Se7en") and Jeff Bridges ("The Massive Lebowski", "The Fisher King").

A reporter (McGregor) trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets over they bargains for when they meets a special forces agent (Clooney) who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose aim is to finish the war as they know it.

Had I not been reviewing BEYOND REMEDY I’d probably have turned it off within minutes. Still, someone’s gotta review it and so I stuck it out for what seemed like an eternity so that I could give caution to you guys. Actually, I was very glad that I did ‘cos it did pick up a small towards the finish and although I still didn’t rate it, I feel sure that it might appeal to a fair percentage of viewers.

In a world where kids' movies are generally presented in hi-tech 3D digital wonderment, Anderson defiantly presents his two in old-school stop-motion animation, making it look like something by Oliver Postgate or Jan Svankmajer. They even gets the fronds on his foxy heroes & heroines' faces to stir & bristle in a style which for traditional animators was accidental – with the models being repositioned for each frame – but which for Anderson is a deliberate mannerism.